Read the passages, and then write two to three sentences comparing the authors’ approaches and purposes. Cite specific evidence from the texts to support your claims.

Answer:

Sancho recounts his life in a personal letter, contrasting an upbringing where ignorance was thought to ensure obedience with a later, fortunate life. Cugoano also draws on personal experience, but directly condemns slavery as “horrid” and “brutal,” using his escape and desire to learn to support his argument against it.